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Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Jethal Silverwing Show and EQ2’s Day podcasts are expected to run on-schedule tonight and should no doubt bring to bear some interesting discussion about the latest turn of events at SOE causing what could be a protracted downtime for EQ2 and related games. EQ2’s Day seems to be at 4pm-6pm Pacific (this could be clearer on the website), with Jethal’s show starting at 7pm. Last night’s Down Range already tackled the security compromises and you can listen to that podcast as well. These podcasts are hosted at OnlineGamingRadio. Also, although it was drowned out...
Day: May 3, 2011
SOE’s Facebook Update as of 30 minutes ago is brief and to the point: We’re working as hard as we can to get the servers up as soon as possible, but have no ETA at this time.
SOE Customers have started to report receiving e-mails from unscrupulous individuals attempting to lure frustrated players to websites which look and feel like official SOE customer portals to try to acquire additional login credentials and credit card information. Please check the sender of these e-mails and further watch the addresses linked in any suspicious e-mail. When in doubt, go to http://www.SOE.com/ and disregard any links provided in outgoing e-mails. There is currently no “action” that players can take other than to wait-and-see how SOE and Sony addresss the current crisis. UPDATE: SOE’s website has been updated with the following...
With yesterday’s news of all SOE customer records (excluding all but a few credit card details) falling into the hands of hackers, there have been wild predictions of just how long it will take until things get sorted out and SOE games, websites, and forums come back online. The PlayStation Network, which powers online play and updates for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable (especially the PSP Go which has no game slot), has been offline now for 13 days and yesterday’s press release suggests that some features will be online this week but the entire PSN service won’t...